South Carolina · Nonprofit
WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC
WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,328,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,954,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $392k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $623k
What Wideman Davis Dance of New York Inc does
Mission
Wideman Davis Dance moves audiences and communities by creating performances, engaging in dialogue and conducting historical and place-based research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wideman Davis Dance of New York (WDD) is an interdisciplinary dance companywhose programming and performances centralize the histories, present, and futures ofBlack communities in the Diaspora. During the 2025 fiscal year, WDD conducted an12-week residency program in Columbia, SC. Over the course of the residency year, WDD completed multiple community performances, outreach and education events, and engaged local artists in the Columbia communities, providing financial support and mentoring. In addition to creating space for communities, they also emphasize working alongside its members. WDD prioritizes intergenerational work, fostering relationships, and creating spaces for communitiesto come together.WDDs work and audiences both exist in a space often neglected by mainstream dancecompanies. Their work shines a light on the myriad experiences of Black communities,centralizing their narratives, histories, and subjects. WDD moves audiences throughthe dances they create and perform, dialogues they lead, research they conduct, andmovement experiences they share. They invite audiences and communities to engagewith ideas, history, and the world around us in order to better understand…
$365,838 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $365,838.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $92k to $1.8M (+1892%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 7% · 2023 58% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $76k → $779k.
From the IRS filings of WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 73% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC?
- WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,328,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,954,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,328,000 in grants to WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,954,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing